Dear jamie: the student council started a program— called “welcome to lincoln”—for new transfer students. this program gives new students a tour of the school and assigns them study-buddies to them in their first few weeks. the program has been beneficial for other new students, and i think you would benefit from it, too. as you are a new student in our school, i want to invite you to enter the program. sincerely, miguel norris read this draft of the letter miguel is writing to his classmate to invite her to join a school program. which of these choices is the best topic sentence for this paragraph? a) you probably don't know much about your new school. b) our school has many excellent after-school activities. eliminate c) our school has started a program that i think you will enjoy. d) the student council needs students to participate in its programs.

Read the passage. when mother’s fever persisted for a week, father summoned our family doctor. dr. blakemore applied leeches to mother’s skin in hopes of reducing the amount of blood in her body. despite the doctor’s efforts, she languished in bed for three more days before her appetite returned and she requested a thin broth. our dear cook, mrs. davis, prepared the broth and delivered it to my mother directly, eager to ease her discomfort. what can readers infer about the time period of the passage?

Which form does a verb take when the subject receives the action?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive